A Vision for Haweswater's Future
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Tucked away at the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, Haweswater Reservoir sits encircled by looming fells. The landscape is undoubtedly beautiful, full of Lake District grandeur. However on closer inspection, major ecological issues stand out...
This Wild Haweswater film shares a vision for the future of this RSPB reserve, showing how bold action today can secure a vibrant future for nature and people.
Over the course of centuries, Naddle and Swindale, like all farms in the Lake District, have responded to the changing demands of society. By focusing on improving water quality, reducing flood risk, improving wildlife habitats and locking up carbon in trees and soils, alongside sustainable food production, the RSPB and United Utilities are continuing in that proud tradition here at Wild Haweswater.
Artwork by Richard Allen
Narration by Lee Schofield
Narration recorded by The Studio at Sunbeams
Edited by Finn H Drude
Produced by Wild Intrigue CIC
Find out more about Wild Haweswater at wildhaweswater.co.uk.
Awesome. ❤
Very well inspiring vision. I am really looking forward to watching this unfold.
This is such an inspiring project, and a real flagship for how conservation is for people too, not just for wildlife. I can't wait to see how this project and the landscape continues to develop.
It's a very thought provoking book. Highly recommended.
This was really interesting and so good to see Fell ponies in the vision. We love Swindale Valley and Wild Haweswater
Fantastic project. This is what is needed across our uplands. Benefits are many. To people and nature.
Thanks very much Sue. - Annabel
amazing mission!!
I'm in full support of this vision, long overdue. Great work.
Fantastic piece! Great voiceover, too!
Wow I hope I get to see this finished before I die, I currently have just 3 months before Retirement kicks in and in the past I have hike across this area twice on my Coast to Coast visits to the Lake District and one return visit to the Borrowdale area 10 years after my first visit to the Lake District in 2000. I find no matter the distance I walked or hiked in that area each day on my C2C Hike I always felt "at home" in that, for me, a far off Paradise. Tony in Essex
Thanks very much Anthony. I hope you enjoy many happy years hiking in retirement - Annabel
@@wildhaweswater5622 Sadly that is no longer possible due to age, but I have my memories of past hikes and the whole of TH-cam to refresh the parts I have forgotten.
@@user-TonyUK Ah, great to have those memories and tech then. :)
Such a good video- amazing to hear AND see how the vision will effect the landscape, wildlife and people of the area. We need more content like this- it really sparks the imagination! thankyou
I agree, this was such an engaging way to present the content! It really got me dreaming and imagining what our landscapes could and should be like given the chance...
You're welcome Dan. Glad you enjoyed it. The artwork really helps bring it to life doesn't it - Annabel
Tree restoration can improve soil structure and PH .Along a river it can help with providing shade for fly life and small fish and trout and who knows maybe even salmon parr?
It can indeed. When we re-wiggled Swindale Beck, salmon returned to spawn for the first time in over 100 years. - Annabel
Read, wild fell.
And we all lived happly ever after? Thank you Uncle RSPB. YER IN YOUR DREAMS,RSPB!
I like the overall vision but wouldn't the encroachment of trees onto the high moor itself result in less curlews breeding not more? Obviously more of our uplands need tree cover but having trees on the actual moor can't be good for breeding waders. I would just like an insight into whether I'm wrong or if this is something thats been thought through already?
Thanks for your question. The bog restoration work will really benefit curlew and other waders (there currently aren't really any curlew to speak of). Where the tree restoration is taking place is in the bracken dominated areas where they couldn't breed anyway. As you can see from the visuals, the closer you go to the top, the tree cover becomes less dense, so there will be a mosaic of different habitat types, each benefitting different species that have been factored in. Best wishes, Annabel
Real video would have made this much better. Maybe get a drone with a camera if you do an update. 🌿
Hiya, this was produced as a vision of where we hope to get to by 2050, so it's not possible to use real video as it's not happened yet. We are capturing the changes as we go along using drones and other methods - Annabel
Wishing you much success in your project. I'm in the high desert of Arizona and am using some of Geoff Lawton's techniques to green the desert.
I have noticed that much of the conjecture herein is carefully orientated around the carbon footprint model, and a rewilding protocol is extant behind the scene, all this is of course detrimental to humans who once filled the vallies with children and land workers.
The title sustainability is a trojan horse to humanity in so many ways, putting wildness first may become its ultimate enemy.
It would be interesting to know that the vision contains in terms of data on: full time equivalent employment, calories of food produced, £ benefit to the water catchment process, other £ inputs the local economy, savings in downstream flood damage, insurance saving and carbon sequestration value. Also any differences in subsidy per hectare compared to a sheep focussed enterprise. We can then add that to biodiversity benefit and take a balanced view.